"Axiomatical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is brought out in the second quotation—that profits directly produced by the war are not limited to the period of the war. This again is really axiomatic, being only another form of the platitude that it takes longer to construct than to destroy: but it means that even a short war of sufficient intensity will ensure a long period of profits, and therefore it noticeably aggravates ...
— The World in Chains - Some Aspects of War and Trade • John Mavrogordato
... resolved into Interest. Conscience an original power of the mind. Axiomatic first principles of Morals. Objections ...
— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain
... cannot help believing them, and that they are indispensable to science and to consistent thought. Logic, then, may be briefly defined as the science of proof with respect to qualitative laws and propositions, except those that are axiomatic. ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read
... the one hunting for a principle or a "divine method;" the other sapping or shelling from a distance, and for his pleasure, a position, or gaining a point, or settling a rule, or verifying a problem, or getting axiomatic ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... governments, manners, and beliefs which were thought to be right, decorous, and true at one period have been judged wrong, indecorous, and false at another; and that views which we have heard expressed by those in authority over us in early life tend to become axiomatic and unchangeable in ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various |
